Your fireflies have been my favorites because they bring back the memories of childhood innocence. I have admired your work for some time now….subject matter, skill and style are unique. I also appreciate the thought you put into the poetic descriptions. They remind me of japanese hiaku. One last comment; having left Detroit twenty years ago, I am glad to see art is still alive and well there.

Very nice photos – I’m trying to figure out how you got the lighting in some of these and can’t do it. I think the crane flies is my favorite of the bunch. Was this all natural light or did you use a small amount of fill flash?

# 4 January 2014 at 5:21 pm

Rick said:

Thanks Ted. Almost all natural light, a tiny bit of fill flash on the sparrows. I’m often bouncing light around with various reflectors. The fireflies are especially challenging.
Barely caught the crane flies in the last few seconds before I lost the setting sun.